Biography of Eugene PotterBroome County, NY Biographies

Potter, Eugene, p. o. Chenango Forks, born in Greene, Chenango county, in 1830; wife, Mar tha J. Boughton, daughter
of David and Anna (Crofoot) Boughton, born in Cayuga county in 1837, married in 1858, children four: Emmet C.,
Arthur E., Myrtle A, and De Forest who died in 1870, aged seven years. Eugene was commissioner of excise in 1884,
and had served One term previous and was collector in 1863-64. Parents, Lyman and Mirian (Thirston) Potter, natives
of Washington county, N. Y., married in 1829, settled in Broome county in 1839, children five: Eugene, Harriet,
Ann, Frances and Florence A. Lyman died in 1869, aged 60, his wife resides on the homestead, aged 75.

From:
History of Broome County
with illustrations and biographical sketches
of some of its prominent men and pioneers.
Edited by: H. P. Smith
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1885